Example sentences of "to [be] see [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservation propaganda has made fashionable women genuinely ashamed to be seen wearing a leopard-skin coat . |
| 2 | Next to Assad 's Syria , Colonel Gaddafi 's Libya had become little more than a refuge for Palestinian extremists , a useful quartermaster s supply depot for arms and explosives , and a convenient whipping boy for Western governments anxious to be seen taking a strong line on terrorism without risking their strategic interests in the Middle East . |
| 3 | Crawford 's character , Harry England , had to be seen driving a forty-year-old Rolls-Royce convertible into the ten-feet-deep swimming pool of a château above Cannes after getting drunk . |
| 4 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 5 | ‘ If this ever came to court it would n't look good for an older woman to be seen enticing a young boy into marriage — ’ |